On this day in
1646, the leadership of the Massachusetts Bay Colony pass a law making it a capital offense for any citizen to deny that the Bible is the divinely inspired and wholly-true
Word of GOD. By the way, that's "capital" as in "hung by the neck until dead." And this, in a place populated by people who fled England because of religious persecution! Oh, the IRONY!
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On this day in
1791, the Western Confederacy of American Indians wins a major victory over the United States in the Battle of the Wabash.
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On this day in
1847,
Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, discovers the anaesthetic properties of chloroform. Woo-hoo!
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On this day in
1921, Japanese Prime Minister
Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo.
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On this day in
1922, in Egypt, British archaeologist
Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Pharaoh
Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
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On this day in
1924,
Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected the first female governor in the United States.
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On this day in
1942, disobeying a direct order by
Adolf Hitler, General Field Marshal
Erwin Rommel leads his forces on a five-month retreat.
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On this day in
1952, the United States government establishes the National Security Agency.
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On this day in
1955, after being destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of
Beethoven's
Fidelio.
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On this day in
1970,
Genie, a 13-year-old feral child is found in Los Angeles, California having been locked in her bedroom for most of her life. Crazy, but
true.
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On this day in
1979, the Iran hostage crisis begins when a group of Iranians, mostly students, invades the US embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages (53 of whom are American).
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On this day in the year
1995, after making a speech at a peace rally in Israel, Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin - a man who wanted peace because he had hands-on experience with war - is
gunned down in the street by
Yigal Amir, an ultra-conservative Israeli who thought Rabin didn't take a sufficiently hardline stance towards the Palestinians.
Or was he?
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On this day in
2008,
Barack Hussein Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected President of the United States.
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